“Noiseless” by Salvo Bombara

The Italian photographer's underwater images arouse a state of peaceful surrender

Although Salvo Bombara and I have never met, we both keep tabs on one another on social media outlets. I’ve always been struck by the calm beauty of his images, so I finally just reached out and told him to give me some of his work. These images are a part of a large body of work Bombara entitles “Noiseless,” a series of bodies, suspended in dark pockets of water, as if there were no past and no future, just this very moment.